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I originally created this series to Galerie Pleiku exhibition in Berlin (together with Timo Sälekivi) in 2014. There I first created the very subtle toned Where the Wind Stopped series, after which the series Women in Trees was born. The colours are stronger and there are plenty more hues in the latter series, but still you can’t really describe it as very colourful. I felt that still needed some colour spots for the exhibition to enchance the visual dynamics of the exhibition. I didn’t need to look for the idea too long, because I had already thought about the shadows of the women sitting in trees before, and I had already started working with the series. I just tuned up the colour volume and made them stronger and brighter. One shadow is still lingering at the concrete wall, but other shadows found their way into red, blue and yellow walls.

At the Galerie Pleiku exhibition in Berlin I placed the other three works of the series in quite normal exhibition way together, but the yellow A Shadow of the Bird Leaving Soon was placed alone in the wall, around the corner, as a colour surprise among Sälekivi’s greyscale paintings at his side of the exhibition room. Afterwards the artworks have toured in Where the Wind Stopped exhibition, in which I have used the artworks like accent marks or diacriticals for other artworks. At the exhibition I have ‘broke’ the series and handled the artworks as individual pieces. I often hang these works very high (the women sit up in the trees and the bird is flying way up high, after all!), and in that way I have ‘paused’ the story of the subtoned pictures for a while – or I have managed to control the rhythm of the exhibition. This kind of exhibition layout has been pleansant for my eyes, but also I have enjoyed that this series has given me a possibility to play with the exhibition layout with a bit unconventional way, but still in a way, that the basic idea of the exhibition remains – or enchances.